Piston



l 2,244,166 flii'ljrsN'r oFFlcE rrs'roN w Charles Awllarien, Banania. He.. assigner clonelelvlnwdlarlemtliolialhand Hal-ryA.

Application April 4, 1938, No. 199,838

' 4 Claiml; (CL 309-7) invention has relation to improvements in piston construction, and consists in the novel features more'fuliy eet forth in the specification and'pointed'out in the claims.

The invention relates more particularly to the head of the piston and the packing therefor whereby the piston is capable of operating under very high compressions` and at the sometime eifectively controlling the oil within the cylinder. The principal objectV of the invention is to simplify the packing means so as to eliminate expensively constructed pistonrings which employ various devices (or increasing the unit pressure and controliing the flow of oil. As is well known in the art the recent tendency in the design of internal combustion engines has been toward continually increased compressions and higher piston speeds. The piston rings that were available soon proved inadequate to hold the high compressions for which the engines were designed and to controi the oil Within the cylinderat the high operating speeds. so that piston ring manufacturers have been called upon continually to eifect improvements in the piston rings in order that ithe engines might operate at the emciency for which they were designed. Piston ringinventors have sought to accomplish the desired results by various expediente for increasing the unit pressure voi the rings. and by introducing in the ring construction various oil scraper and oli drainage devices.

The ultimate result of this continual eifort to cylinder inwhich a piston l. operates, said piston being .of the usual design, embodying a head H and a skirt 8,'separated by a' transverse slot a.

According to the most common present day practice all of the piston packing is located in the head of the piston. It is customary to have three piston ringgroo'ves. in the two upper 'of which are disposed plain rings for holding the compression within the cylinder, while the lower ring is of diiferent design and is known as an oil ring for the control of the oil iliow within the cylinder. As stated above, great demands have been made on these rings through the increasing of the compression and piston speeds, and much trouble has been encountered in solving this problem.

I have discovered that a special oil ring may be dispensed with if the number oi' compression rings is increased and an oil drainage channel is disposed in the piston head between two of the rings. This arrangement is shown in Fig. i wherein a series oi three plain thin rings i, i, I are disposed in grooves-o, a. o, in the upper part of the piston head H, and a single plain ring 2 is disposed in a groove g' in the lower part of the piston head adjacent to the slot a. The rings i and 2 are considerablythinner than those used in present practice and they are also spaced more closely together than is done under present pracevolve a piston ring that willi perform effectively in a high speed high compression enmne vis the production of rings that are complicated, frail and expensive. to manuiacture. I have eliminoted thesediiiiculties by the simple expedient of increasing the number of piston rings in the piston head and providing an oii drainage groove in the piston head itself instead of inlany of the rings. In my improved piston packing arrangement all of the rings are of plain construction embodying no special devices to operate as scrapers or oil passageways.

The advantages of the invention. together with the simplicity thereof. will be better apparent from a detailed description in connection with the accompanying drawing. in which:

lligure 1 is a side elevation of a piston and packing therefor, emboing the principles of my invention. the parts being broken away and fragments oi the cylinder wall being shown in section. Fig. 2 isvan enlarged vertical sectional detail through the pistou bead taken on the line 2-2 of Eig. i. Figures 3 and 4 are modiilcations of the invention, the former embodying a spring inner ring or expander for the piston ring and the latter showing a plurality of rings in each piston groove.

tice, so that the sum total of the packing that is effective to hold the compression of the cylinder is greatly increased over that 'now in use.

'I'he eiilciency of vthe packing may be further controlled by regulating the' tension of the rings so as to obtain any desired unit pressure within the limits of the material that is used. This material maybe cast iron or spring steel, as desired: or, if preferred. some of the rings may be cast iron and others of spring steel.

The arrangement of the grooves o and g is such that a relatively wide space is left between the bottom groove d and groove a', within which space is formed, or machined. a groove g" of greater width than grooves n. 0' to serve as an oil reservoir for the excessl oil within the cylinder. Fromthe back of the reservoir a" oil drainage ports l extend through the wall I of the piston head so that accumulations of oil within the groove a" may drain therefrom into the cylinder C.

The unobstructed groove g" provides greater reservoir space for surplus oil and permits of freer drainage back into the cylinder than can be obtained in the old practice of using oil rings,

This must be obvious as the ring .itself occupies Referring to the drawing, C indicates an engine 00 therefrom.

the mention sho in Fig. 3 the rines Li, i endtsreebscireduplyttsteeliiiner ring e, or eder, which isy located in the `grooves o, g' tf1'. the ring in e manner thst is well understood in the nrt. Ey utilizing the en der. d the unit pressure exerted by the rings es modicstion shown in Fig. 4 n plurality I of very thin rings (preferably teel) 6, 6 are po' in the srooves a e'. If 0f which 111188 t the cylinder ,t moy be very greatly in'-v will operete independently in the groove to tain en eectiveseel est the cylinder woll, notwithsding said cyiinderwell. If desired, s single ringr may be disposed in one or more of the grooves es shown in Fig. 2, while in grooves s plurality oi rings may be disposed such es shown in Fig. e.

'In other words, the two forms illustrated in Figures -2 and e may be combined in one construction.

In order to facilitate the drsinsse o2 oil tthrough the groove g'n endctrsnsverse slot a on the do stroke oi the piston, the ring lend 'I immediately above vslot o end the ring lend immediately above groove g" nre slightly undercut, that is. of slightly aller dismeter then the other y. lands s. Also ring lands d ond 9' on the sides oi groove g" have their oppor edges le, is' re A spectively beveled to facilitate the entrsnce of excess oil into seid groove e". The upper edges ii and i2 respectively of s i ond adjacent to the grooves" are elso beveled so that excess oil may easily poss these ss on the upstroke of the piston, after which the oil readily ows into groove g" and slot o respectively.

The advantages of my improved piston and piston pecking construction moy be summed up es follows:

1. Simplicity, since e11- the rings are alike.

2. Durability. since the s are of plain solid construction without intricate formations.

3. Emcient oil drainage because of the deep channel provided by the unobstructed oli groove.

4. Elimination of ledges and crevices for the eccumuletion oi cerbon.

5. Increased edectiveness of compression een! because of the greater number oi rings 74V e present day practice end higher individuel unit pressure oi each rities or unevenness oi lends he 1.

estereo head hun plurality ofring grooves in its l periphery enden oil groove disposed between twoor smd grooves. the upper boundins wel! oi the oil groove end the upper bounding ex'se slot being of less eter e' between grooves, the piston 1;'. za. the well he m.. oil :terse perm lg from the oil oove to vri the piston, end the bounding of the oil grooves serving es ring lands.

3, .A piston s heed and e skirt with f cree slot @tween seid head end skirt, said f? am en open oil drainage groove in its end e piston .f 4: i. s lend between the oil dre end eech oi the ring grooves. said ring their opte edges beveled, o. ring in eeen ofthe srooves end the piston wall he oil f. Y. ports leeg from the oil groove to wi 'c I the piston, and the lower :fr

being ci less than the 3. A piston he o heed end e skirt, said heed having open oil droge grmve in its periphery end e piston ring ,sroove' on each side thereof of le@ width than the oil drainage groove.

Le between the oil drainage groove and grooves, the land between theoil groove. end per nl groove beine of less diameter then that of the piston heed in general, a

ring in r oi the ring grooves. and oil e ports lea fr oil ww to within the piston.

e. A piston bovins e need and e skirt. said he he open oil s f e groove in its periphery end s piston groove on each sido thereof or im width than the oil drainage groove. e ring d on esci: side of theA piston ring grooves, the scent ring lends d the extent o! the oil drainage groove and having their outer met beveled to form e. widened wey Kor oil into seid groove, piston rings in the grooves., seid piston rings having veled feces extending between their outer pe ripherel surfaces d their ur surfaces, and

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